Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering

• Preface
• p. vii

• I
• The Question of Human Rights
• p. 1

• 1
• Opening up conceptions of rights
• p. 3

• Human rights promotion and the 'foreign analogy'
• p. 10

• 2
• The construction of human rights: dominant approaches
• p. 19

• The social contract
• p. 24

• The international domain
• p. 37

• 3
• The pursuit of grounds
• p. 55

• Some theorists
• p. 62

• The 'Asian Way' debate
• p. 76

• Dialogue
• p. 82

• II
• Case Studies
• p. 89

• Introduction to the case studies
• p. 90

• 4
• China--the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989
• p. 93

• The story
• p. 99

• The political context--'the state'
• p. 102

• The students
• p. 110

• Responses
• p. 121

• 5
• East Timor
• p. 128

• The history
• p. 130

• East Timor in Indonesia: the human rights situation
• p. 143

• Incorporation reversed
• p. 150

• Self-determination
• p. 154

• 6
• The status of Indigenous Australians
• p. 162

• Aboriginal health in Australia--current conditions
• p. 168

• 'The great Australian silence'
• p. 177

• Commonwealth Indigenous health policy--1970s-2000s
• p. 182

• Self-determination and citizenship
• p. 188

• 7
• Conclusion
• p. 198

• References
• p. 212

• Index
• p. 221